{"id":9476,"date":"2014-12-02T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2014-12-02T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:51:10","slug":"circling-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9476","title":{"rendered":"Circling each other&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it is a little bit of an interesting time in politics right now with the changes that are coming and the parties circling each other like fighters waiting to land the first punch&#8230;.and it looks like it was Obama that landed with the executive order on immigration and now we wait for the repub response&#8230;and the thing that I don&#8217;t understand is why the repubs just don&#8217;t do what Obama asked&#8230;pass a bill that would make the executive order unnecessary. That way, they could take credit for it and take a big chunk out of their Hispanic problem&#8230;but they just can&#8217;t do anything that would look like they caved in to Obama&#8230;and that is the master stroke of Obama&#8217;s comment of\u00a0 &#8220;pass a bill&#8221;&#8230;the repubs will look petty if they just attack and they will lose their base if they agree to do their job and pass a bill on immigration&#8230;.it just may be interesting the rest of the year after all&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it is a little bit of an interesting time in politics right now with the changes that are coming and the parties circling each other like fighters waiting to land the first punch&#8230;.and it looks like it was Obama that landed with the executive order on immigration and now we wait for the repub response&#8230;and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=9476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Circling each other&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[52,26],"class_list":["post-9476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-immigration","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9477,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions\/9477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}